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From: dylan@ibmpcug.co.uk (Matthew Farwell)
Newsgroups: comp.os.misc
Subject: Re: UNIX vs. the world (again) (was: Compilation listing from Sun ...)
Message-ID: <1991Jun18.153324.2417@ibmpcug.co.uk>
Date: 18 Jun 91 15:33:24 GMT
References: <1991Jun15.143436.5574@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <25791@lanl.gov> <13331@sybase.sybase.com>
Reply-To: dylan@ibmpcug.CO.UK (Matthew Farwell)
Organization: The IBM PC User Group, UK.
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In article <13331@sybase.sybase.com> tim@ohday.sybase.com (Tim Wood) writes:
>In article <25791@lanl.gov> jlg@cochiti.lanl.gov (Jim Giles) writes:
>>(I don't know what [ system administration personnel ]
>>do, and I don't want to know.  They always seem to be overworked
>>and the only time I see _any_ effect of their activities is when they
>>accidentally break something and bring my workstation down.)  
>
>Too bad you don't have a greater appreciation of system admin.  Have you
>ever sent or received mail?  Have you ever dialed out on a modem under
>UNIX?  Have you ever had a file restored?  Have you ever wondered how
>machines get on the network?  Do you have any notion of shared computing
>resources?  If it weren't for system admin people, you
>would likely be hacking on an isolated machine with files at the mercy of
>the first power or disk failure to happen.  Open the old eyes...

I always think the definition of a good sysadmin is someone you don't notice
is there, because he prevents all of the crises...

Dylan.
-- 
Matthew J Farwell: dylan@ibmpcug.co.uk || ...!uunet!ukc!ibmpcug!dylan
	But you're wrong Steve. You see, its only solitaire.